The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything

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Winner of a 2013 Small Business Book Award for Economics The world is more overwhelming than ever before. Our work is deeper and more demanding than ever. Our businesses are more complicated and difficult to manage than ever. Our economy is more uncertain than ever. Our resources are scarcer than ever. There is endless choice and feature overkill in all but the best experiences. Everybody knows everything about us. The simple life is a thing of the past. Everywhere, there's too much of the wrong stuff and not enough of the right. The noise is deafening, the signal weak. Everything is too complicated and time-sucking. Welcome to the age of excess everything. Success in this new age looks different and demands a new skill: Subtraction. Subtraction is defined simply as the art of removing anything excessive, confusing, wasteful, unnatural, hazardous, hard to use, or ugly . . . or the discipline to refrain from adding it in the first place. And if subtraction is the new skill to be acquired, we need a guide to developing it. Enter The Laws of Subtraction. Through a dozen of the most compelling stories of breakthrough innovation culled from 2, 000 cases and bolstered by uniquely personal essays contributed by over 50 of the most creative minds in business today, The Laws of Subtraction outlines six simple rules for winning in the age of excess everything, and delivers a single yet powerful idea: When you remove just the right things in just the right way, something very good happens. The Laws of Subtraction features contributions by over 50 highly regarded thinkers, creatives, and executives. On Law #1: What Isn't There Can Often Trump What Is qWhen you reduce the number of doors that someone can walk through, more people walk through the one that you want them to walk through.q -- SCOTT BELSKY, founder and CEO of Behance and author of Making Ideas Happen On Law #2: The Simplest Rules Create the Most Effective Experience qKeeping it simple isn't easy. By exploiting subtraction in innovation, we've been able to create an environment of freedom and creativity that allows us to thrive.q -- BRAD SMITH, CEO, Intuit On Law #3: Limiting Information Engages the Imagination qSubtraction can mean the difference between a highly persuasive presentation and a long, convoluted, and confusing one. Why say more when you can say less?q -- CARMINE GALLO, author of The Apple Experience On Law #4: Creativity Thrives Under Intelligent Constraints qHere's the key to the conundrum for managers who want to stoke the innovation fire: That close cousin of scarcity, constraint, can indeed foster creativity.q -- TERESA AMABILE, author of The Progress Principle On Law #5: Break Is the Important Part of Breakthrough qIf you kill the butterflies in your stomach, you'll kill the dream. Embrace the feeling. Save the butterflies.q -- JONATHAN FIELDS, author of Uncertainty On Law #6: Doing Something Isn't Always Better Than Doing Nothing qWhen we're faced with the greatest odds against us, often we need to edit rather than add.q -- CHIP CONLEY, cofounder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of Emotional EquationsScion management decided to remove that pain and gave dealers an edict in the
form of a written covenant: move from push to ... The Genesis project taught Scion
to avoid traditional advertising and instead favor low budgets with creative use of
alternative ... It was normal to see an xB adorned with banners reading aNo Clone
Zonea and aBan Normalitya in the middle of the venue ... Scion was one of the first
national brands in the United States to buy into online radio, starting in 2005.

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The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything

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Matthew May

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McGraw Hill Professional - 2012-10-26

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